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Ah, a Scott I see! Welcome to the forum (from me that is).
Music isn't my thing but I do remember the old Acorn Archimedes has an 8-bit logarithmic sound chip that offered so much but never quite produced enough. Still, it was my first experience of samped music coming form a computer (Take me down to the Paradice City ...)
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Spedley (28/05/2008)
Ah, a Scott I see!
That I am. Should I, er, speak in the local dialect? Ach aye the noo, etc. Though unfortunately I don't have ginger hair, know any skirt-wearing men (at least not to my knowledge) or spend my days hunting haggis. 'Cause haggis is an actual creature.
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| ok sorry i forgot stacy was also a mans name must try to be nicer to people was behind a library firewall will check out your blog have you heard of HardSID which is basically a hardware sid chip you can program check out remix.kwed.org and c64 takeaway for cool retro tunes
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stacykidd (29/05/2008)
Spedley (28/05/2008)
Ah, a Scott I see!That I am. Should I, er, speak in the local dialect? Ach aye the noo, etc. Though unfortunately I don't have ginger hair, know any skirt-wearing men (at least not to my knowledge) or spend my days hunting haggis. ' Cause haggis is an actual creature. aye ye should lass and drink irn bru (it will turn yi gingger in nae time) alternate irn bru with buckie and deep fried mars bars and ye'll be fine 
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If you're talking about composing your own 8-bit music on a PC, give Schismtracker a try. It's totally free and is a descendant of the original ScreamTracker software developed for writing 8-bit music for the early PC demo scene back in 1990(ish).
Schismtracker supports 8-bit and/or 16-bit sound files, up to 64 channel polyphony, and a whole host of other goodies. You can find ready-written 'chip' tracks and plenty of other music for it by looking on the Mod Archive website here... http://modarchive.org/.
Schismtracker: http://tinyurl.com/2gzs4b 
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You should check out Casiotone For The Painfully Alone's stuff! Don't know if it's actually 8-bit music but he certainly uses circuit bending to great effect
I love his deep melancholic voice over the chirpy sound effects, 'New Years Kiss' is awesome as is 'Young Shields'
Also YACHT and Dan Deacon! Haha! I could go on I love this stuff 
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